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The Tower of Babel (1968)

by Morris L. West

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Spændingsroman om optakten til 6-dages krigen i Mellemøsten i 1967 centreret omkring chefen for Israels militære efterretningsvæsen og hans agent i Syrien og deres roller i det politiske og økonomiske spil.
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A fiction set within the very real world of late 1960's Israel, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and the dispossessed Palestinians following the establishment of Israel in 1948. Interesting to read after so many decades when you know what followed and how tensions are still very real and present. ( )
  ElizabethCromb | Nov 18, 2020 |
1030 The Tower of Babel A Novel, by Morris L. West (read 19 Oct 1969) I don't believe it is great literature, but this book is carefully and capably constructed. Laid in 1966 in the Middle East, it tells the story of a Jewish spy in Damascus. Really well done, it caught me up. ( )
  Schmerguls | Jun 29, 2009 |
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Dramatización de un conflicto: el destino de Israel y la trágica lucha que le enfrenta al mundo árabe.

Un agente secreto israelí, un jefe del contraespionaje, un general de Damasco, un banquero libanes y una pintora judía son los protagonistas, ficticios o no, que marcan con su línea de acción el dramático devenir de un pueblo y las trágicas oscilaciones de su destino.

Jacob Baratz (director del servicio de inteligencia militar de Israel), Selim Fathalla/Adom Ronen (dual judío iraquí y espía de Israel), y por último, al Dr. Bitar (médico sirio colaborador del espía judío) son los protagonistas principales. Los tres con el denominador común de su rigor profesional y absoluta entrega a una causa noble: el bien común del colectivo al que pertenecen. Superpuesta por ellos a todo, incluido lo individual y lo privado.

El papel crucial lo tienen los intereses económicos y financieros de muchos que aparentemente no están, ni tan siquiera aparecen implicados en este conflicto entre árabes y judíos.
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The watcher on the hilltop settled himself against the snarled bole of an olive tree, tested his radio, opened his map case on his knees, focused his field glasses and began a slow meticulous survey from the southern tip of the Lake of Tiberias to the spur of Sha'ar Hagolan, where the Yarmuk River turned southwestward to join the Jordan.
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Spændingsroman om optakten til 6-dages krigen i Mellemøsten i 1967 centreret omkring chefen for Israels militære efterretningsvæsen og hans agent i Syrien og deres roller i det politiske og økonomiske spil.

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